Spirit Of Ecstasy

“This piece was written by Steve Blanco, our bass player. It’s very heavily inspired by mid-century American automotive mentality and everything that stems from that sort of culture. You can pretty much tell that, on this record, we definitely got into cars. The album title, Spirit of Ecstasy—that’s the name of the hood ornament on the Rolls-Royce. As everyone’s playing started becoming more enginelike, more machinelike—it became about one degree of separation from Voivod. Read more on Last.fm.

Born in the metropolis: Imperial Triumphant embodies the sounds of New York. The chaos, the menagerie, the perils and majesty of the greatest city on earth. We portray this great juxtaposition between high society luxury coexisting with absolute filth and urban decay. Our city is like the corpse of a giant. What was once so bright, grand and spectacular, is now filled with greedy maggots writhing towards their share of 'success'. We don't support it nor are we against. We only play the sounds of the New York City as we hear them. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.